Trump congratulates Pelosi after Democrats take House majority; staff hinted he wouldn't
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WASHINGTON - After denouncing her on the campaign trail for more than a month, President Donald Trump called House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi Tuesday night to congratulate her for her party's having re-taken control of the House.
The call came shortly after Pelosi's remarks, which were broadcast on the main cable networks.
"President Trump called Leader Pelosi at 11:45 p.m. this evening to extend his congratulations on winning a Democratic House Majority," Drew Hamill, a Pelosi spokesman, in a tweet. "He acknowledged the Leader's call for bipartisanship in her victory remarks."
Just a few hours earlier, before control of the House had been decided, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in an interview that it was unlikely Trump would reach out to Pelosi should Democrats go on to win back the majority."Look I'm not sure why you would call Nancy Pelosi considering a lot of members of her own party have said they wouldn't support her," Sanders said. "If Democrats win tonight, I think we need to wait and see who their Speaker is."
Pelosi, a polarizing figure Republicans have run against for several election cycles, is likely to win the speakership again, even though some members and members-elect have said they would not support her.
Trump bashed Pelosi for weeks in an effort to convince voters that her party was tantamount to a "mob" intent on crashing the country's economy and allowing an influx of illegal immigrants. But he has also said he might try to forge deals with the Democrats on some subjects.
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Well, this should be an interesting time in D.C. I was watching the election results on NBC last night and Tom Brokaw said, well, Nancy Pelosi will be the Speaker again....Chuck Todd disagreed with him aand said there are too many 'new' and younger people who will not be satusfied with the status quo. He believs that it will be someone else, though he didn't specualte who.
Later it was revealed that Nancy Pelosi said recently that she expects to be speaker again but, she won't hold it for long, she plans on leaving the speakership soon after taking it. How soon, I don't know, I'm thinking some time around 2020, in any case we will see what happens.
As she needs to be elected by her peers, it will be interesting to see how the new folks coming in act-will they fold and become part of the status quo or will they continue to go a spearate path from any party's plan?
I think the number of folks opposing Pelosi as Speaker is around 70 or so.
Going to be a knockdown drag-out fight for her.
Yes, a lot of them campaigned partially on the idea that they wouldn't support her for speaker, I do feel that she is putting too much confidence in getting the speakership again.
I hope so, we need someone in the House who will be willing to work with the other side but, won't be willing to just roll over whenever they say to do so.
I agree and have the same hopes. Time to govern,
One thing the Republicans ran into over the last few years was the reality that even though they had a majority in the House, they didn't all agree on everything. It starts with the Speaker vote, but it's a problem that will appear on issues big and small, but particularly the big ones.
That isn't a partisan issue, both sides of the isle deal with it. The issue the GOP had and has is that they refuse to compromise, even with each other. When Dems had the majority, they have been able to reach consensus on legislation, at least within their party.
We'll see how many in the GOP House become or remain members of the 'Tuesday Group'. They are the ones who the Dems can work with on bi-partisan legislation.
It was funny watching the MSNBC types last night. They weren't happy campers at all. They were really dissapointed they only got a little snippet of power back.
My State got back to total "Normalcy". The "Wack" had to much "Wack" and lost, and the "Lazy ass" got thrown OUT ! WooHoo !
THE DISSAPOINTMENT OF THE RADICALS !
So all of those Democrats are 'RADICALS'. Got ya.
Whatever floats your boat !
Do you refute the "Lefts" own words coming from NATIONAL TV.
Wow. He said it was "heartbreaking." Maybe if they stopped building up and supporting unreasonable expectations, they wouldn't be so heartbroken after every election.
Exactly !
I was just being nice when I said "Disappointing" in my comment.
They....in the Vid....said the "Blue Wave" Bubble......BURST !
I AGREE !
To All: Please re-read the seed and discuss the seed. There are plenty other places to have these other conversations, if you can't find one, please feel free to publish one.
"Pelosi, a polarizing figure Republicans have run against for several election cycles, is likely to win the speakership again, even though some members and members-elect have said they would not support her."
If there are actually 58 to 70 that don't ACTUALLY want her to be "Speaker", which would make a vote "For" not viable for her, but she becomes "Speaker" anyway, that tells me those 58 to 70 were just speechifying to get elected. Sellouts to their own words.
What is it that they say about people that continually do the same thing over and over again and expect different results .Pelosi screwed up last time and cost them the House. There is no reason to think this will be any different.
She's on the TV NOW.....squawking about "Health Care" again, as to why the Democrats won where they did.
Gee....I wonder what Democrats in the house will be pushing for ? hmmmmmm…………..
The Democrats needed to win the Governorships more than seats in Congress. The way to undo the republican gerrymandering is at the State level. Until this happens the Democrats are going to have many heartbreaks.
First course of action - even out the playing field.
Amen!
I believe the Democrats only flipped about 6state legislatures, And now, they will have to defend those seats in 2020 while still under the old 2010 maps.
Not sure if the "Hate Trump" bandwagon will be able to last that long.
I'm pretty confident there will be no problem keeping the "Hate" going. It's reinforced by the man himself every single day, multiple times throughout the day.
Speaking for myself. I will never surrender my principles and accept the actions and vile vulgar behavior of this man.
Except legislatures do redistricting, NOT Governors.
They have an important role but yes, I stand corrected.
They got exactly what most news agencies, including MSNBC, forecast that they'd get. If in your mind that qualifies as "disappointed", well whatever...
It didn't come from me !
Watch youtube vid in comment #2.1. The "Left" are the ones saying it !
I watched a few different news outlets last night.
You ?
Ahh, so you are saying that someone else is saying that Democrats are "disappointed" that they did not go beyond expectations. I can understand that, makes perfect sense.
Under that logic we can also say that the Republicans are "disappointed" that they did not retain control of the House, and Trump is "disappointed" that he no longer has a rubber stamp Congress.
Ahh....again.....I'm NOT saying it. Your folks are.
Watch the vid this time.
"and Trump is "disappointed" that he no longer has a rubber stamp Congress."
"Veto" comes to mind. Wouldn't that be fun ?
No, you said that they said. Read my comment again. I am addressing this to YOU since YOU made the comment about what others are saying.
And Comment #2.1 Proves it.
Wow I didn't know he did, Seems to me the last person to have a rubber stamp in congress wasted it passing a piece of shit law called ACA.
They (specifically MSNBC) have been talking about "blue wave" from the beginning of the year,
Charlie Cook: It's Clear That A Blue Wave Is Coming
MSNBC PUNDIT PREDICTS A ‘STRONGER’ BLUE WAVE
Jason Johnson: Roseanne Firing Is Realization That A Blue Wave Is Coming
New Signs of a #BlueWave in Wisconsin
to two days ago. Even as late as November 5, these are their own headlines pushing the "blue wave" hype:
What will it take for Dems to pull off a ‘blue wave’ tomorrow?
A District in Virginia Could Be Early Blue Wave Indicator
Were there people also coming on MSNBC and saying the blue wave might not be so amazing? Sure. But the idea that MSNBC wasn't forecasting a blue wave isn't quite accurate.
And of course it wasn't just MSNBC
Knock, Knock... It's the Blue Wave
North Carolina suburban women rally for blue wave in red district
Democrats look for blue wave among millennial voters
Democrats say blue wave will flood Congress after midterm elections
Just how big is the Democratic wave going to be this fall?
The PPACA is far more popular now that Congress has tried to eliminate it, than it was when it passed. People were fine with the lying Republicans voting 50+ times to eliminate when they knew Obama would just veto it, but as soon as Trump became POTUS Republicans got very very afraid of the fallout if they truly did repeal (not replace) the PPACA.
Who knew health care would be so hard?
Then this morning Trump tweeted:
One irony is that it's been TWO 'playing that game' for the last 2 years but it was the GOP House and the GOP Senate.
Another is that Trump alleges that the GOP is all about 'law and order' so WTF has stopped the Mitch McConnell and the GOP Committee Chairs from investigating those leaks up until now?
It has already been shown that most of those leaks came directly from the Whitehouse. Trump won't allow anyone to investigate the leaks.
Of course the majority of the leaks are from the White Trash House? Where else?
No idea, but he can't kick off an investigation of leaks and say, only investigate these leaks.
This was a strategic move by Mr. Trump. Anyone who gives him credit for reaching out an olive branch in the form of a congratulations is nothing more than a fool. He knows Pelosi is toxic. If she were smart, she would take herself out of the running for Speaker. She can be just as effective behind the scenes.
I really hope Pelosi can pull it off again. She was wildly successful at getting Republicans elected before.
Maybe Democrats can even bring Debbie Wasserman-Schultz back as DNC Chair now?
Anythings possible. Some people are not able to step out of the spotlight.
What brings you to that conclusion? Based on her RECORD, she is the most successful Speaker in modern history. She knows how to build consensus in her caucus and unlike Ryan, she knows how to COUNT VOTES.
Why the hell would the Democrats take out their best General?
Seriously, fuck what the neo-nationalists think or say about Pelosi, in the real world the reason that they hate her is that she gets shit done.
The republican's have been very successful framing her exactly as I stated. It's the lie that's been told over and over until people accept it as truth. Yes, she's been successful but what will prevent her from being successful out of the spotlight? Sometimes you have to be strategic and do things a little different in order to win the game.
Do you want to be right or do you want to be dead right?
Ha! I didn't know creating record deficits makes one a success. I hope you get paid to offer opinions like that, even anonymously.
Yeah, by getting all the representatives from swing districts ejected from Congress so only hard core fanatics were left in her caucus.
She such a consensus builder, that dozens of Democrats have come to a consensus to not vote for her as speaker.
It's amusing. So many new Democrats first act in Congress will be to prove themselves liars and vote for Pelosi after promising their district they wouldn't.
rld the reason that they hate her is that she gets shit done
The only thing she's gotten done as Speaker is get Republicans elected and run up massive budget deficits. Besides the upsets in Ohio and Florida, she's the best thing that happened for Trump's reelection chances yesterday.
WHY should she crawl into the shadows? She is a powerful leader who has PROVEN her competence and her leadership is a valuable asset to the Dems.
Pelosi has won the game by being a out front leader. Her strategy brought us one of the most successful legislative session on record. That is an undeniable FACT.
Do you want to post snark or have a cogent discussion?
I told you the reason why, imo. That's all I can offer.
This is our reality right now. Whether it's true or not doesn't matter. The republicans have been successful in creating an alternative reality and the public has bought into it. It's not just republican voters but also democratic voters that have swallowed it.
I wasn't try to be snarky. I'm speaking truth to the current reality. We can be right and strategic or we can be right and lose.
Feel free to ignore me if you don't think I'm taking the issue seriously.
I didn't know that Pelosi was responsible for the Great Recession.
Pfffft.
Wow, Pelosi is more powerful than I thought. /s
So you're cheering that Democrats won't vote for her and then decrying the fact that Democrats will be voting for her.
Again, pfffft.
The legislative record refutes your comment.
So you think that Trump will run against Pelosi? Interesting...
Rather than allowing misinformation to set the agenda, I would much prefer to EDUCATE the electorate. I know that it's more time consuming but it would pay future dividends.
Okay
Trump congratulated Pelosi.
That's real nice.
Sounds like at least he accepted the results of an election.
Wonder if Dems will ever learn to?
No, it’s a ploy. Trump cannot be trusted to do the right and civil thing.
Let me know when Trump holds a Scream at the Sky Day and declares "Not my House", mmmkay?
Huh?
Something I can explain?
yes, preferably in english.
let me know precisely what you need explained and I will try my best to accommodate you.
scream at the sky? not sure what that means.
"Scream at the Sky Day"
https://www.newsweek.com/americans-scream-helplessly-sky-donald...
When all else fails, scream helplessly at the sky about the discourse in Washington and Donald Trump's White House agenda.
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/11/08/scream-at-the-sky-event...
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Never heard of it? Really? WOW...……….just WOW.
Nope this went completely over my head. Didn't think there was a scream at the sky day but I've participated in a couple solo pity parties. Hahahahahaha